Ten Years of Progress Toward a World Free of Land Mines

Both human children and young animals are especially vulnerable to the scourge of antipersonnel land mines. Top, after losing both legs in a land-mine accident, Cambodian Khan Keo, age 13, sits in a wheelchair during her hospital stay. Bottom, an eight-month-old elephant named Mocha walks on an improvised prosthesis at the Friends of the Asian Elephant facility in Thailand; she and her mother were injured on the heavily mined Myanmar (Burma)-Thailand border.

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Ten Years of Progress Toward a World Free of Land Mines: Year In Review 2007